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Some Like It Hot

  • 1959
  • Passed
  • 2h 1m
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
273K
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Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959)
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After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

  • Director
    • Billy Wilder
  • Writers
    • Billy Wilder
    • I.A.L. Diamond
    • Robert Thoeren
  • Stars
    • Marilyn Monroe
    • Tony Curtis
    • Jack Lemmon
  • See production, box office & company info
  • IMDb RATING
    8.2/10
    273K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,553
    64
    • Director
      • Billy Wilder
    • Writers
      • Billy Wilder
      • I.A.L. Diamond
      • Robert Thoeren
    • Stars
      • Marilyn Monroe
      • Tony Curtis
      • Jack Lemmon
    • 506User reviews
    • 235Critic reviews
    • 98Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Top rated movie #130
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 15 wins & 15 nominations total

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    Some Like It Hot
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    Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder in Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959)

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    Marilyn Monroe
    Marilyn Monroe
    • Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
    Tony Curtis
    Tony Curtis
    • Joe…
    Jack Lemmon
    Jack Lemmon
    • Jerry…
    George Raft
    George Raft
    • Spats Colombo
    Pat O'Brien
    Pat O'Brien
    • Detective Mulligan
    Joe E. Brown
    Joe E. Brown
    • Osgood Fielding III
    Nehemiah Persoff
    Nehemiah Persoff
    • Little Bonaparte
    Joan Shawlee
    Joan Shawlee
    • Sweet Sue
    Billy Gray
    • Sig Poliakoff
    George E. Stone
    George E. Stone
    • Toothpick Charlie
    Dave Barry
    Dave Barry
    • Bienstock
    Mike Mazurki
    Mike Mazurki
    • Spats' Henchman
    Harry Wilson
    Harry Wilson
    • Spats' Henchman
    Beverly Wills
    Beverly Wills
    • Dolores
    Barbara Drew
    • Nellie
    Edward G. Robinson Jr.
    Edward G. Robinson Jr.
    • Johnny Paradise
    Sam Bagley
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Brandon Beach
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Billy Wilder
    • Writers
      • Billy Wilder
      • I.A.L. Diamond
      • Robert Thoeren
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Jack Lemmon wrote that the first sneak preview had a bad reaction with many audience walkouts. Many studio personnel and agents offered advice to Billy Wilder on what scenes to reshoot, add and cut. Lemmon asked Wilder what he was going to do. Wilder responded: "Why, nothing. This is a very funny movie and I believe in it just as it is. Maybe this is the wrong neighborhood in which to have shown it. At any rate, I don't panic over one preview. It's a hell of a movie." Wilder held the next preview in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, and the audience stood up and cheered.
    • Goofs
      Early in the movie, Joe talks about the Brooklyn Dodgers, a name not officially used until 1932. From 1914 to 1931 the Brooklyn baseball team was the Robins, not the Dodgers. However, the Dodgers had been an unofficial nickname since 1895, and the World Series program from 1920 even referred to them as the Dodgers instead of the Robins.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Jerry: Oh no you don't! Osgood, I'm gonna level with you. We can't get married at all.

      Osgood: Why not?

      Jerry: Well, in the first place, I'm not a natural blonde.

      Osgood: Doesn't matter.

      Jerry: I smoke! I smoke all the time!

      Osgood: I don't care.

      Jerry: Well, I have a terrible past. For three years now, I've been living with a saxophone player.

      Osgood: I forgive you.

      Jerry: [tragically] I can never have children!

      Osgood: We can adopt some.

      Jerry: But you don't understand, Osgood! Ohh...

      [Jerry finally gives up and pulls off his wig]

      Jerry: [normal voice] I'm a man!

      Osgood: [shrugs] Well, nobody's perfect!

      [Jerry looks on with disbelief as Osgood continues smiling with indifference. Fade out]

    • Alternate versions
      Video version contains extended exit music after the film.
    • Connections
      Edited into Vida conyugal sana (1974)
    • Soundtracks
      Runnin' Wild
      (1922) (uncredited)

      Music by A.H. Gibbs

      Lyrics by Joe Grey and Leo Wood

      Played during the opening credits

      Played by the girls on the train and Performed by Marilyn Monroe

      Performed also a capella by Tony Curtis

      Gene Cipriano (tenor sax for Tony Curtis) and Al Hendrickson (ukulele for Marilyn Monroe)

    User reviews506

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    9/10
    A Legendary Comedy
    With Billy Wilder's steady direction, the great casting, and Wilder/Diamond's sparkling script Some Like It Hot has become one of the most enjoyed comedies of cinema history. The story itself is pure comedy gold; the unhappy jazz-musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) are witness to the St. Valentine massacre in 1929 and flees from Chicago with an all-girl-band who's headed for Miami, dressed up as "Josephine" and "Daphne". Soon both are hooked on Sugar Kane (Marylin Monroe), the band's lead singer - but things gets more complicated when arrived in Miami, Daphne attracts a elderly playboy and the gangster of Chicago arrives at the Floria-hotel to have a mafia-meeting.

    The work of the three participants in center is truly great; Marylin Monroe is at her most sexy and charming, Tony Curtis' brilliant control and Jack Lemmon is truly priceless at his peak. The movie paces fantastically throughout opening scenes of Chicago, onto the train-ride (features fantastically funny moments of brilliant comedy timing) and arriving at the hotel in Florida, and the situations that occurs with the band, with playboy Osgood Fielding III, Marylin Monroe and the mafia. And Billy Wilder shows his talent with keeping such a sparkling screenplay brilliantly paced and edited, never rushing itself - and Wilder sneaks in some fine moments of noir with the Chicago-gangsters brutality and cruelness. And the movie is a altogether different experience as a comedy than anything before it, the absurdity and quirkiness of Curtis and Lemmon in a transvestite-comedy is fantastically funny, and the final dialog between Osgood Fielding and Daphne/Jerry seemingly came out of the blue, and surprised me just as much today as it did back in 1959. Some Like It Hot is nothing less than a must-see in comedy, and cinema history.
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    • Release date
      • March 19, 1959 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Not Tonight, Josephine!
    • Filming locations
      • Hotel del Coronado - 1500 Orange Avenue, Coronado, California, USA(Seminole Ritz Hotel)
    • Production companies
      • Ashton Productions
      • The Mirisch Corporation
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $2,883,848 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $195,088
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 1 minute
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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